The Sulpicians, Province of the US

Up date Winter 2018 Sulpicians Form New Partnership With Provincial’s Message When one door closes . . . Assumption Seminary the major seminaries in the John C. Kemper, PSS “And now, we take up this journey... A journey of fraternity, Southwest. lexander Graham Bell of love, of trust among us. Let us “ has long been A(1848-1922), scientist, always pray for one another. Let us a place of willing collaboration inventor, engineer, and pray for the whole world, that and combining of resources. innovator, is credited with there may be a great spirit of Assumption Seminary has saying, “When one door fraternity.” followed this model. It has closes, another opens . . .” Pope Francis resulted in the nurturing of As we usher in 2018, we many vocations and the often pause to reflect upon he Society of St. Sulpice, forming of many fine priests,” the year--on doors that closed Province of the U.S. said Archbishop Gustavo about and doors that opened. 2017 T(Sulpicians), will assume the this collaborative partnership has been a year of grace and administration and staffing of with the Sulpicians. favor for the Sulpicians of the Assumption Seminary in San “I look forward to the U.S. Province. In the spring, Antonio, , on July 1, 2018. Sulpicians contributing the we closed the door on our 118 Most Rev. Gustavo García-Siller, level of experience, dedication, years of service at St. Patrick’s MSpS, Archbishop of San and vision for which they are Seminary in Menlo Park, Antonio and Very Rev. John C. well known. Together we will . But we opened the Kemper, PSS, Provincial work to provide all that is good door to two other seminaries— Superior of the Sulpician for the formation of excellent one in Malawi (Southeast Fathers, signed the agreement priests as servant leaders in the Africa) and one in San Antonio, on November 21, 2017. image of Christ the Good Texas. Assumption Seminary is one of Shepherd for an evangelizing (Continued on back cover) (Continued on Page 2)

Inside this issue: St. Anthony’s Seminary, Malawi ... pp 3-4 Blessing of Centre House and Chapel ... pp 6-7 Assumption Seminary ... pp 8-9 Bishops Visit Villa Olier ... pp 10-11

Update_Winter_2018.indd 1 2/12/2018 12:25:40 PM New Partnership (Continued from Page 1) Church,” Gustavo added. The archbishop is also the chairman of the Board of Trustees of Assumption Seminary. The Sulpicians have been assisting in the program at Assumption Seminary for the past twenty years. Beginning in July, the Sulpicians will assume administration of the seminary and appoint a rector and other formation faculty as necessary. This partnership At left: Anthony Pogorelc, PSS, Provincial Consultor and Sr. Jane Ann with the Archdiocese of San Antonio is a Slater, CDP, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Antonio witness the historical moment in the history of the document beginning the new partnership. Catholic Church in the , particularly in the Letter from the Archbishop of San Antonio Southwest. With this agreement, the Sulpician Fathers are taking It gives me great joy to announce the inauguration of a a historical step forward in partnership between Assumption Seminary of San Antonio and the serving the Church in one of its Society of St. Sulpice, Province of the U.S. For the past twenty most rapidly growing areas. years, at least a dozen Sulpicians have served on San Antonio’s seminary formation faculty. We have been pleased with their contributions to Assumption Seminary. On November 21, 2017, Very Rev. John C. Kemper, PSS, Provincial Superior and I, the Archbishop of San Antonio, signed Update an agreement of dedication and partnership. From fall 2018 and is a publication that seeks to inform moving forward, the Society of St. Sulpice, Province of the U.S., its readership of the state and will provide a RectorPr­ esident for Assumption Seminary. I look current activities of the US Province of the Society of St. forward to them contributing the level of experience, dedication Sulpice, its membership and and vision for which they are well known. institutions. For more information, San Antonio has long been a place of willing collaboration and please visit our website at www. combining of resources. Assumption Seminary has followed this sulpicians.org. model. It has resulted in the nurturing of many vocations and the Editor in Chief: forming of many fine priests. I am particularly edified by the Carleen Kramer relationship between Assumption Seminary, Oblate School of Copy Editor & Design: Theology, the Mexican American Catholic College and the Marguerite Plank University of the Incarnate Word. I am also impressed by the Proofreading & Support: collaboration created by the different members of the seminary Janine Vary faculty, the diocesan priests and deacons, religious priests, and lay Photographers: men and women. Blaine Carvalho, Robert Galvan, Once again, I am grateful to announce this added level of Eugene H. Mwanza, PSS collaboration with the Sulpicians. Together we will work to provide all that is good for the formation of excellent priests as servant If the recipient is not the correct leaders in the image of Christ the Good Shepherd for an person to receive Update, please evangelizing Church. email [email protected] Gustavo Garcia-Siller, M.Sp.S. Archbishop of San Antonio

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 2 2/12/2018 12:25:41 PM Going Back to the Roots— A New Sulpician Endeavor

t the invitation of Cardinal Filoni, Prefect of the ACongregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and Archbishop Murat, Nuncio of Zambia and Malawi, and with the approval of Very Rev. Ronald D. Witherup, PSS, Sulpician Superior General, the Province of the United States has taken responsibility for St. Anthony’s Seminary, Kachebere, Malawi. The Episcopal Conference of Malawi has entrusted the priestly formation of its John C. Kemper, PSS, Mr. Sean Callahan, President & CEO of Catholic Relief seminarians to the Sulpicians Services, and Bishop Martin Mtumbuka, Bishop Director of Seminaries for the beginning February 2018. ECM, on a recent visit to CRS Worldwide Headquarters in Baltimore.

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 3 2/12/2018 12:25:42 PM Meet St. Anthony’s Administration and Faculty Patrick Simutowe, PSS Ms. Furlong recently Fr. Simutowe will serve as retired after a long career as Rector. He previously served an educator of Social as Rector at St. Augustine’s Studies, Political Science Major Seminary (Mpima) in and English at Delone Kabwe, Zambia. Catholic High School in “The call on the Zambian McSherrytown, Pennsylvania, Sulpicians to go and work in in the Diocese of Harrisburg. She holds a Master’s Degree St. Anthony Major Seminary in Political Science from the – Kachebere in Malawi is a University of Iowa and a call to the Zambian Church C.A.S. Certification in Educational Administration to go back to its roots. The from McDaniel University. She is interested in evangelization of Zambia Inter-Religious Dialogue and has served on came from Malawi through the Missionaries of numerous local and national committees. She has Africa—the White Fathers in 1891. Upon taught on the college level as a Visiting Professor establishing the Church, the White Fathers started and lecturer. to promote local vocations. The seminary to which “What a blessing it will be to work with the team many Zambian Seminarians were sent is of faculty and the Malawian seminarians, as well St. Anthony Major Seminary. As such, this new as with support staff in the next year. I especially mission of the Society of St. Sulpice is a call to the look forward to learning about the role of the Zambian Church to go back to the roots. We the Catholic faith in the daily lives of the young men Zambian Sulpicians shall become ambassadors to who have made a life choice to serve as models of this mission which we may say Christ in the ministry of priesthood. I am most is God’s plan to reunite the grateful to the Sulpicians for the invitation to return Church in the AMECEA to southern Africa.” Region.” Thomas Ulshafer, PSS Fr. Ulshafer recently retired Victor Shikaputo, PSS will be assisting with the Fr. Shikaputo will serve as transition at St. Anthony’s Vice Rector. He served on the Seminary, Kachebere. He will Formation Faculty at Emmaus present to the faculty on the Spirituality Centre in Lusaka, Charism and History of the Zambia. Sulpicians. “The Society has always Rev. Emmanuel Ichidi tried to make itself available to Fr. Ichidi will join the assist bishops who need our Formation Faculty. A Sulpician help. This is part of our candidate, he served on the mission as a community. And so I hope to be a Formation Faculty at Emmaus support to the three Zambian confreres who are Spirituality Centre in Lusaka, going to Malawi to assist the Episcopal Zambia. Conference there. I am happy to go to Malawi to give moral support to my Zambian brothers, the Mary Furlong pioneers of this new commitment. Ms. Furlong, a laywoman who served in Zambia “Since I am retired, some people have said that for six years with the Franciscans and Jesuits on it is a great sacrifice for me to go to Malawi. But I see it less as a burden and more as a privilege. separate projects related to education and AIDS, I admire the Zambian confreres who are going is joining the faculty where she will teach U.S. there and I know that I will enjoy being with them. English, pronunciation, and grammar, and other This is a good way for me to continue to contribute courses as needed. to the ministry of priestly formation.”

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 4 2/12/2018 12:25:42 PM Villa Olier Donors Honored on New Boards

Dan Doherty, PSS, Director of Villa Olier, assisted by John Kemper, PSS, Provincial Superior, bless the donor boards acknowledging those caring persons whose generosity demonstrates a commitment to the Sulpician Fathers.

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 5 2/12/2018 12:25:45 PM Blessing of the Sulpician Centre House and Chapel

Archbishop Mpundu and Archbishop Murat bless the outside entrance to the chapel.

is Excellency, Julio Murat, Apostolic Nuncio and staff the Emmaus Spirituality Centre in the Hfor Zambia and Malawi blessed the Sulpician spring of 1989, expressed appreciation for the Centre house and Chapel at the Regional Centre in great work that the Sulpicians do in the formation Lusaka, Zambia on December 1, 2017. of priests for the church in Zambia. The Nuncio The event marked a significant day for the commended the Sulpicians for offering “stable Society of St. Sulpice in Zambia. On this service to the church in Zambia.” Archbishop memorable day, the Zambian Sulpicians, together Mpundu further expressed his esteem for the with their American confreres, the Provincial Sulpicians as a gift to the Zambian Church and Superior, Very Rev. John Kemper, PSS, and applauded the Society for their upcoming Rev. Gladstone “Bud” Stevens, PSS, were joined undertaking of administrating St. Anthony’s by more than a hundred invited guests. Seminary in Malawi. This development signals the In his homily, the Nuncio stressed the confidence of the Nuncio and the bishops in the significance of a chapel in any religious and Sulpicians, and it signals the growth of the priests’ house as “a place where we encounter the missionary spirit of the local church. Lord…” He went on to say that we can only be true At the meal after the Mass, Rev. Shoba Nyambe, instruments of the Kingdom of God if the “word of God guides us all the time.” PSS, the Regional Superior and Rector of Emmaus In his remarks, Fr. Kemper spoke of the role of Spirituality Centre, expressed his gratitude to the Mary in Sulpician spirituality, for the Chapel is Zambian bishops for inviting the Sulpicians to named under the patronage of the Presentation of Zambia, to the Nuncio for presiding at the blessing the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple. The Chapel ceremony, to Archbishop Mpundu for his presence was given to the Zambian Sulpicians as a gift from and continued support, and to all the guests who the former provincial, Rev. Thomas Ulshafer, PSS, celebrated this moment with the Sulpicians. in honor of his parents. Fr. Shoba concluded by acknowledging how the The Nuncio and Archbishop Mpundu, the then Zambian Sulpicians shall ever remain indebted to Bishop Director of Seminaries who was directly Fr. Ulshafer for this invaluable gift. involved in bringing the Sulpicians to administrate Eugene Mwanza, PSS

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 6 2/12/2018 12:25:45 PM Shoba Nyambe, PSS Rector of Emmaus and Regional Superior, Archbishop Mpundu, Archbishop of Lusaka, Archbishop Murat, Apostolic Nuncio to Zambia and Malawi and John Kemper, PSS, Provincial Superior of the US Province. Artwork by Peter Wm. Gray, PSS.

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 8 2/12/2018 12:25:55 PM The so-called Protoevangelium of James tells the story of Mary and her parents like this: “They went up into the temple of the Lord. And the priest received her, and kissed her, and blessed her, saying: The Lord has magnified your name in all generations. In you, on the last of the days, the Lord will manifest His redemption to the sons of Israel. And he set her down upon the third step of the altar, and the Lord God sent grace upon her; and she danced with her feet, and all the house of Israel loved her.” Presentation of Mary in the Temple Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller, M.Sp.S.

Sulpician Fathers Anthony Pogorelc, John Kemper, Luis Corneli, Archbishop Gustavo, Jim Myers, Rene Lopez, Nam Kim, and seated, Jim Tucker.

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he British psychologist Dr. Robert Holden once Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Bishop wrote, “The real gift of gratitude is that the David Zubik of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Tmore grateful you are, the more present you Sulpician Fathers Michael Barré, Melvin become.” Bearing this in mind, Fr. John Kemper, Blanchette, Joseph Bonadio, Gerald Brown, Cale PSS, our provincial superior, extended an Crowley, Richard Gula, Cornelius Hankomoone, invitation to the members of the United States John Kemper, John Kselman, John Mattingly, John Conference of Catholic Bishops, who have offered McMurry, and Louis Reitz, enjoyed the opportunity support to our seminaries and other ministries, to to reconnect with the bishops who they had not partake in a reception with cocktails and hors seen in some time. d’oeuvres on November 14, 2017, held at Villa Olier The bishops individually expressed their appreciation for the formation that the Fathers in Baltimore, our newly renovated retirement offered to their seminarians and priests over the residence. years. Some of them were even classmates and The event was graciously organized by Carleen fellow faculty members with the Sulpicians who Kramer, the executive assistant to the provincial, were part of the gathering, and so the event with the assistance of Clarksville Caterers, a firm presented the opportunity to share some very that the province often uses to host receptions happy memories from the past. associated with special events. The evening concluded with each bishop being Those who were able to attend were: Bishop presented with a gift of the recently published John Barres of Rockville Center, New York, Bishop book A Primer on Sulpician Spirituality, by its John Dolan of San Diego, California, Bishop author, Fr. Melvin Blanchette, along with an Ronald Gainer of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Bishop expression of gratitude from Fr. Kemper, who then Richard Garcia of Monterey, California, Bishop invited all of the bishops to a tour of the facility. Larry Silva of Honolulu, Hawaii, Archbishop John Daniel J. Doherty, PSS

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 11 2/12/2018 12:26:12 PM St. Mary’s Seminary & University Account Book, 1791-1804

Time Heals All Wounds? t is sometimes said, “Time heals all wounds,” careful research. You can watch for his paper on and it is true that, for many, the passage of our www.Sulpicians.org website. Itime does dull pain. But some injuries done to The Sulpician community is deeply sorry that others should not be forgotten too quickly. It is our pioneers in this country failed to grasp the full thoughts like these that led me, last spring, to ask implications of slavery here. It is hoped that Rev. Thomas Ulshafer, my predecessor as acknowledging their blindness will be a small provincial, to study how some of the first contribution toward healing a wound that still Sulpicians in the United States became involved festers: the first descendant of slavery was in the practice of slave owning, apparently without segregation and the second racism. As Cardinal fully appreciating its evil. Donald Wuerl wrote recently, “Intolerance and It is sometimes difficult to acknowledge the racism will not go away without a concerted shortcomings of others, especially when you awareness and effort on everyone’s part. admire them. Nevertheless, I encourage recipients Regularly we must renew the commitment to drive of Update to read the results of Fr. Ulshafer’s it out of our hearts, our lives and our community.” John C. Kemper, PSS, Provincial Superior

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 12 2/12/2018 12:26:14 PM Ecce Quam Bonum… 1917-2017 History and Classical Studies graduate from The second stage was editing the footage and The George Washington University, with work bringing the vision to life. Minnich says, “Sifting Aexperience at the National Archives and Records through hours of material, trying to tell the story of Administration, seminarian Michael Russo (3-T, the seminary’s past 100 years, is a formidable Washington) was the first overall draft pick as challenge. Creating a powerful experience for the author for a proposed TC centennial history viewer requires careful attention to minute details volume, Ecce Quam Bonum: A History of that make a big difference: selecting each clip Theological College. An avid history buff and from all our material, adjusting the timing and disciplined researcher, he readily accepted the length of the clip and its transition, choosing the challenge from TC’s Office of Institutional right music and typeface for captions, and getting Advancement for a spring and summer work-study the perfect sound on the voiceover, among many project. Michael explains his motivation: “I enjoyed other things.” researching for and writing Seminarian artist Elmer this book. It was a chance for Herrera-Guzmán (now on me to put my skills to use for pastoral year in Dallas) a seminary and formation for assisted by culling photos to which I am deeply grateful. provide pertinent graphic The Sulpicians and TC have a resources, and Patrick Judd rich and fine-tuned tradition of (2-B, Charleston) did forming men for priesthood. I supplementary interviews, am now much more while others supported in appreciative of being a invaluable ways throughout recipient of this tradition.” the process. The last stage Michael began research in was Michael’s drafting of an earnest in March, as the goal abbreviated script for the five- was to have the writing minute video, which was component finished for the TC staff and others to narrated by Gabe Bouk (1-T, Memphis). edit, design, and print in time for the Alumni Days While these interlocutors had to balance this 2017 celebration in early October. The fact that the ambitious work with the demands of formation and bulk of TC archival material was accidentally lost academics, they were thankful for the opportunity during major renovations in the 1990s necessitated and the knowledge it imparted. Matt Browne long visits to the archives at The Catholic shares, “For me, one of the greatest benefits was University of America, the Archdiocese of learning about and experiencing in a new way Washington, and the Associated Sulpicians in Theological College’s incredible history and the Baltimore. Other archives referenced were those of impact the Society of Saint Sulpice has had on it the Basilica of the National Shrine of the over the last century!” John Minnich concurs, Immaculate Conception and those of the Sisters of adding, “In spending so much time with the the Congregation of Divine Providence of historical material, I appreciate much more not Kentucky, who handled food service and other only the seminary’s history, but that of the Church ministries at TC until the 1980s. in America that I am preparing to give my life to in Six months before this research began, master service. Creating something for others to enjoy on videographer John Minnich (2-T, Richmond) and such a momentous occasion as the centennial Matthew Browne (3-T, Rockville Centre) were anniversary was very rewarding, and all the hard already hard at work on a centennial video, also to work is worth seeing how much it touched those be released at Alumni Days. During the first stage who cherish their time spent at TC.” of video production, the two seminarians packed To receive a copy of the centennial volume, up cameras, tripods, lighting, and sound contact [email protected]. To view equipment countless times to film interviews with the historical video, go to theologicalcollege.org. bishops, priests, other alumni, and seminarians. Suzanne Tanzi Media and Promotions Manager at Theological College

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 13 2/12/2018 12:26:14 PM Sulpician Patrimony Returns his past summer Baltimore received a special delivery from Menlo Park, TCalifornia. Traveling cross-country by truck was a collection of artwork and sacred objects that comprised the patrimony of the U.S. Province of the Sulpicians on the West Coast. Of special significance were the chalices of six Sulpicians who had served on faculties of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University and St. Joseph’s High School and College, including those of the Reverends Robert V. Gavin, PSS, Andrew A. Forster, PSS, and Francis J. “Pop” Rock, PSS. Janice Frey Wolfe’s portrait of Rev. John Olivier, PSS, along with thirteen paintings and drawings by Rev. Peter Wm. Gray, PSS, were also sent. Fr. Gray’s collection included his Scenes from a Mexican Village and Its People, a series of six black ink-and- wash drawings, and the hand-painted tile mosaic commissioned by the artist Geza Saint-Galy to commemorate the 1991 bicentennial anniversary of the Sulpicians’ arrival in the United States and the founding of St. Mary’s Seminary & University. Several pieces are already on display in Sulpician houses. St. Joseph’s elegantly carved oak prie-dieu that depicts the Madonna and Christ Child can now be found in the vestibule of the chapel at St. Mary’s Seminary & University. The Renaissance Revival Tall Case Clock given to the Sulpician community at St. Patrick’s by the Little Sisters of the Holy Family has been restored and placed in the dining room of the Provincial House, along with the Patarino ceramics. The bronze statue of the Sedes Sapientiae has been installed in front of the Provincial House. Tricia T. Pyne, Ph.D. Director, Associated Archives at St. Mary’s Seminary & University

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Philosophy Takes Fr. Kwaleyela’s Studies to Rome hen I think about the future, two things stand out in my mind: WFirst, it is my desire to avoid being a najua. Najua simply means I know, in Swahili, and it is an expression used to signify a person with an exaggerated self-opinion: one who, for example, after exchanging pleasantries in a conversation and discovering that you are a philosopher, would start to lecture you about Socrates! By this, I do not mean that I am not interested in hearing what other people think about my field and its theories. Second, it is my desire to be competent in my field. I desire to be competent in what I am studying now because I am enthusiastic about it. During my two years of graduate studies at the Pontifical Antonianum University in Rome for a Licentiate in Philosophy, I wish to specialize in philosophical phenomenology as well as methodological phenomenology with a purpose of studying the human conscious experience, otherwise called our lived experience. My interest is in existential phenomenology, where perception plays an important role in understanding the world as well as offering a way of engaging with the world. Thus, I will use the phenomenological method of research which is qualitative and has the goal of gaining insight into a lived experience. As a result of my aforementioned interest, I hope to be capable of research in carrying out data collection and analysis that shall assist me when it comes to making good judgment choices posed by real-life situations faced by seminarians who shall be assigned to me for accompaniment as advisees and spiritual directees. My past experience of being a member of a seminary tool in helping me to be relevant to my students in formation team has taught me that accompanying as far as cultivating a practical sense of judgment seminarians is more than a one-way channel of is concerned. teaching and offering oneself as a model of In my spare time, away from studies, I love to Christian living, but also one of avoiding the watch soccer and simply enjoy time with my temptation of being abstract! community at the Pontificio Collegio Canadese. Consequently, I am convinced that my Needless to say, there is a lot to see in Rome! specialization in phenomenology will be a useful Peter M. Kwaleyela, PSS

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 15 2/12/2018 12:26:26 PM TC 100th Anniversary Sabbaticals Gladstone “Bud” Stevens, PSS hile I have used this Wsabbatical year as an opportunity to get caught up on Game of Thrones and to visit every Mexican restaurant in middle Tennessee, I have also engaged in activities of a more edifying nature. Last year I was asked to be the writer for the sixth edition of the Program of Priestly Formation. I completed the initial draft in November and now it is in the hands of the committee. It was an honor to be a part of the process and I will have an opportunity to share some reflections with all the members at our May gathering. I have also been doing consulting work with Sacred Sulpician Fathers Gladstone “Bud” Stevens, Shoba Nyambe, Victor Shikaputo, Heart School in Atherton, and John Kemper at a game park in Zambia. California. Specifically, I was two lectures. This was an of the most vibrant Christian asked to work with the board of amazing experience and it was communities in which I have trustees and faculty on issues wonderful to see first-hand our been involved. I live with two relating to Catholic identity. I institutions in Central Africa. I great priests and the people have enjoyed getting to know was particularly delighted by my have been kind and very the members of the community stay in our newest Sulpician gracious to me. I had forgotten and collaborating with the Seminary, St. Anthony’s in how much I love ordinary Sacred Heart Sisters again. Kachebere, Malawi. The setting parochial tasks and it brought Given that the last few years is spectacular and the students back very pleasant memories of have involved a great deal of and faculty could not have been the early years of my priesthood. traveling, I have tried to keep more hospitable. In addition, most of my family that to a minimum during my Finally, I have been able to re- lives in the area and it has sabbatical. I was, however, engage in parish ministry. I am meant so much to me to be in privileged to accompany our in residence at St. Henry’s proximity to them again. Provincial recently on a trip to Church in Nashville and this has I would like to take the Zambia and Malawi. During the truly been a heaven-sent opportunity to thank the course of the visit, I got to moment in my life. The parish is Provincial Council for allowing spend time with our confreres in the second largest in the me to take this sabbatical. It the region, go on safari, and give Diocese of Nashville and is one was very much needed.

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 16 2/12/2018 12:26:27 PM Paul A. Maillet, PSS began my sabbatical year in mid-July by making a two-week silent retreat in France at the Abbaye ISaint-Pierre de Solesmes. Next, at the beginning of August, I went to Paris to study French in preparation for my stay in Israel at the École biblique et archeologique francaise de Jerusalem (EBAF). The month-long course at the Institut Catholique de Paris, a short walk from my residence at the Sulpician Generalate, was an Biblical Hebrew and Koine Greek at the nearby excellent intensive immersion experience. While in Polis Institute (Polis—The Jerusalem Institute of Paris, I also got to know some of the French Languages and Humanities), where languages are confreres, reconnected with French relatives, and taught entirely in the target language. I am also enjoyed some of the city’s museums and churches. taking a topography course at EBAF, taught by a I left for Jerusalem in mid-September. During Dominican archaeologist. In this course, the class my first month at EBAF, I did research in its visits various sites in the Holy Land. excellent library on subjects pertaining to teaching In summary, the experience so far has been the Old Testament. I also visited sites in and enriching and rejuvenating, not least because of the around the Old City as well as Masada and experience of living at EBAF where, thanks to Magdala. Since the beginning of the academic shared meals and liturgy, I have met scripture year in mid-October, I have been immersed in scholars and archaeologists from around the world.

Daniel F. Moore, PSS n early July, I traveled to Belgium as a visiting two diocesan priests—one from Ireland and the fellow at the Catholic University of Louvain (KU other from Germany (see photo). We occasionally ILeuven). I resided at The American College where I broke with the academic routine to make excursions, enjoyed both spontaneous and sustained notably Walden’s Pond in autumn, Boston’s Museum conversations and camaraderie with students and of Fine Arts in winter, and Boylston Street’s “Eataly” priest colleagues. KU Leuven offered me the in the spring, to name but a few. While at BC, I opportunity for occasional weekend excursions to interacted with The Center for Christian-Jewish Aachen, Cologne, and Berlin. Its university and Learning (CJL), The Church in 21st Century Center theological libraries made it possible to renew or (C21), and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies acquaint myself with “friends”: Francis A. Sullivan, (IAJS). The bi-monthly luncheons at the CJL SJ, Hans Ur von featured various topics ranging from discussion of Balthasar, current events to selected books. I also renewed my Dietrich acquaintance with Susannah Heschel who Bonhoeffer, frequently attended various CJL events. Abraham Throughout the sabbatical, I was accompanied by Heschel, Amy Jill family, friends, and confreres via FaceTime, texts, or Levine, and in person. While at BC, select Jesuits guided my others. prayer and encouraged me in my renewed In mid- exploration of the Ignatian Exercises. I was enriched September, I left by their hospitality, fraternity, and prayer. Louvain for I am grateful that I could return home to be with Boston College my family upon the death of my sister-in-law, Gail, in as a visiting early August. Conversations with family and friends, scholar. I resided colleagues and confreres proved invaluable then with the Jesuit and throughout the sabbatical experience. Community at St. I returned to Baltimore on May 20, 2017 and Mary’s Hall quickly got caught up in a whirlwind of activities. At where I met old the end of June, I moved from my apartment in the Rev. Daniel Moore, foreground, with friends and made Sulpician’s Dubourg House to St. Mary’s Seminary Revs. Benjamin Dahlke (left) and new ones, mostly & University, Roland Park, bringing the sabbatical to Niall Coll. Jesuits, but also its formal close. I am grateful.

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 17 2/12/2018 12:26:28 PM Sulpicians Celebrate Christmas at Sulpician Website Redesign Provincial House eck the halls” is a familiar holiday imperative and “Dtradition. In December, we fulfilled this imperative and carried on the tradition by having our decorated Christmas tree, holly around the fireplace, nativity scene on the mantel, and poinsettias throughout the house. On December 7, this seasonally festive atmosphere welcomed twenty-four local he Sulpicians.org website is being redesigned and updated. Sulpicians, including a large Management of the content has been brought in‑house and number from Villa Olier, to our Tis being developed by Marguerite Plank, who handles annual Christmas party. publications, graphics, and web design at the Provincial House. Everyone who could come did. Ms. Plank had previously created several successive versions of An hors d’oeuvre dinner made it the website for the Sulpicians’ historic site on Paca Street, easier for us to mingle as we www.stmaryspacast.org. filled the house with The updated site is being built in WordPress, a platform that conversation and laughter to lends itself to being quickly updated as need be and offers many celebrate the season and the design options to highlight features of interest to site visitors. end of another year.

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 18 2/12/2018 12:26:31 PM Thank you, Margaret (Nancy) Seaton Mrs. Margaret Seaton, who Community, Catonsville, care of the Sulpician Fathers. The liked to be called Nancy, was first Maryland. The site was once chapel serves the needs of both introduced to the work of the St. Charles College. The Catholic the Catholic and the Protestant Sulpician Fathers almost 20 years Parish, Our Lady of the Angels, faith communities at ago when she moved into once the chapel for the college, is Charlestown. She became Charlestown Retirement now a parish under the pastoral interested in all the ministries of the Sulpicians, especially our mission seminary in Zambia. Through Nancy’s generosity, the first computer lab was established in Emmaus Spirituality Centre in 2006. Her ongoing commitment to the task of priestly formation in the mission fields of Central Africa was unremitting. The Sulpicians are thankful to Mrs. Seaton for her support of our work in Zambia. Her last and greatest gift, her bequest, will help us secure the Sulpician presence in Zambia and assist us in the important task of priestly formation in our mission seminaries in Zambia and now Malawi.

Save the Date! June 5–12, 2019

Institute for The Institute will be held at Theological College, Seminary Formators 401 Avenue, N.E., Washington, DC. The Fourteenth Institute for Seminary Formators is For more information, please presented and sponsored by the Society of St. Sulpice, visit www.sulpicians.org or call Province of the United States, as a formational 410-323-5070. program for those who minister within the seminary as an advisor, a spiritual director, or a member of the formation team. The Institute employs a workshop format to provide an opportunity for the education and formation for those who assume the responsibility of forming future priests. The Institute for Seminary Formators seeks to situate these important formational roles within the vision of Pastores Dabo Vobis and the Program of Priestly Formation.

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Update_Winter_2018.indd 19 2/12/2018 12:27:08 PM NONPROFIT ORG. Update US POSTAGE Society of St. Sulpice PAID Provincial’s Message Province of the U.S. BALTIMORE MD (Continued from p. 1) 5408 Roland Ave. PERMIT #1078 In the spring of 2017, when Baltimore, MD 21210-1998 we closed the door in Menlo Park, we received a joint invitation from His Eminence Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation of the Evangelization of Peoples and from Archbishop Julio Murat, Apostolic Nuncio to Zambia and Malawi. Their invitation was to consider assuming corporate responsibility for St. Anthony’s Seminary, Kachebere, Malawi, a country adjacent to the eastern border of Zambia. These two neighboring countries have a long standing and cordial history together. with the culture in the society, in Mary in the Temple. As a result of After a period of education, and in the Church of this agreement, we will assume consultation and prayerful that region. corporate responsibility for discernment, the Sulpician The other seminary for which Assumption Seminary on July 1, General Council gave us we will assume corporate 2018. We will assign a Sulpician permission to accept this responsibility is Assumption rector and commit five other invitation. Beginning in Seminary in San Antonio. The Sulpicians to staff the faculty January 2018, we will Sulpicians have been assisting at there. provide a Sulpician rector Assumption Seminary for over I ask your prayers and support and three other Sulpicians to twenty years. In this past year, the as we pass through this door to help staff the seminary. In U.S. Province has been in face the challenges in two addition, we are also inviting dialogue with the Archdiocese of seminaries that represent the a lay woman from the United San Antonio to deepen and to multicultural character of our States to collaborate with us formalize our relationship with Church today. Together let us pray in this mission. Now retired, Assumption Seminary. that these new commitments in she brings a wealth of I am delighted to share with you priestly education and formation educational administrative that we entered into a formal will bear much fruit for service to and teaching experience as partnership with the Archdiocese the Church for generations to well as prior missionary of San Antonio on November 21, come in Southeast Africa and in experience in Zambia. She our patronal feast of the the Southwest of the United comes to us already familiar Presentation of the Blessed Virgin States.

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